Everyday words
Answer
Start with Genesis 30:33, where the Bible uses the word answer in a real sentence: “So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 30:33
“So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be considered stolen.””
2. Genesis 41:16
“Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, “It isn’t in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.””
3. Genesis 45:3
“Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Does my father still live?” His brothers couldn’t answer him; for they were terrified at his presence.”
4. Deuteronomy 20:11
“It shall be, if it makes you answer of peace, and opens to you, then it shall be, that all the people who are found therein shall become forced laborers to you, and shall serve you.”
5. Deuteronomy 21:7
“They shall answer and say, “Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.”
6. Deuteronomy 25:9
“then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face. She shall answer and say, “So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.””
7. Deuteronomy 26:5
“You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, “My father was a Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number. There he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.”
8. Deuteronomy 27:15
“‘Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ All the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’”
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Practice Genesis 30:33
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Somyrighteousnessanswerformehereafter,whenyoucomeconcerningmyhirethatisbeforeyou.Everyonethatisnotspeckledandspottedamongthegoats,andblackamongthemightbewithme,willbeconsideredstolen.”